Thursday, 24 September 2015

Based on chicken stock, cream and glazed shallots, this is one of the
great avocado recipes that can be served warm in winter or cold in
summer. Frozen avocado pulp can be used.
Important: Never allow the soup to boil, otherwise the soup will be
bitter! Remove the pot from the heat before it starts to boil.

Ingredients:

Braise shallots till translucent, add to
the blender together with the chicken soup and avocado and blitz till
smooth. Serve garnished with whipped cream and toasted, flaked almonds,
which complement the nutty flavour of the avocado perfectly.

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Sunday, 6 September 2015

Avocado

Buy untreated avocados here

Thanks to their thick, scaly skin, the pesticides used on avocados don't make their way into the flesh we love in guacamole, in salads, or pretty much on anything.

Avocados are another safe food that ends up with some of the lowest pesticide residues around. Maybe it’s the scaly skin and the way they just kinda “lurk” there up in tree tricking pests into thinking they’re up against alligators. Maybe it’s the fact that a bug got burned one too many times with a beautiful looking avocado that turned out to be stringy and brown on the inside. Maybe pests just hate waiting for an avocado to ripen (who doesn’t?) and give up. Actually, even though a somewhat significant amount of chemicals can be used on avocado orchards, they just don’t make it into the fatty, delicious flesh we crave and consume.

Avocado farmers, both organic and conventional, do use extensive amounts of copper as a fungicide. Copper is an essential nutrient, but too much can be harmful. A single Florida avocado contains 0.9 mg, which is about 100% of the RDI, so don’t go around eating several a day.

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The harvest of my avocados, hand-picked and untreated started. My avocados do not wait in cold store to be sold. I pick them freshly for you on the day you place your order online at the AvocadoShop. Within 24 hours, your parcel is on its way directly from the farm, so you know where your avocados come from!